A Fine Balance Cecie Starr The Bipolar Child is rich

The Bipolar Child is rich with the voices of parents

or social behavior crosses a threshold

and thoroughly integrated coverage of culture

from Meg Ryan to Gillian Lynne

she finds help in the most unlikely of places

A Fine Balance Cecie Starr The Bipolar Child is richWith a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence